I love PERL then ... ;-) Latchezar Dimitrov
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:45 PM > To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] "+" for character method... > > Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > According to Wikipedia, the "+" operator is used for > concatenation in > > BASIC, Pascal, Delphi, Javascript, Java, Python, C++ and > Ruby. These > > are probably the most commonly used modern languages other than C > > (which has no concatenation operator) or Fortran (which I just > > discovered today uses "//"). > > PERL ( "." is concatenation ) would come just behind C and > maybe Java in that list. However, that doesn't materially damage > > > So it seems to me that defining addition of strings to be > > concatenation is a reasonably widespread convention. > > > > - Allen S. Rout > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel